BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - S -
s. upadhi.
sacca
saccakiriyā: 'act of truth'
sacca-ñāna
saccānulomika-ñāna: anuloma-ñāna,
puthujjana.
sacchikaranīyā dhammā
saddhā
saddhānusāri and saddhā-vimutta: the 'faith-devoted and the
'faith-liberated', are two of the 7 kinds of noble disciples (s.
ariya-puggala, B.).
sagga: 'heaven'; s. deva (heavenly
beings).
sahajāta-paccaya: 'co-nascence', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
sahetuka-citta: s. hetu.
sakadāgāmī:
the 'Once-returner': s.
ariya-puggala, A.
sakka: the 'King of Gods'
(devānam-inda), is the lord over the celestial beings in the heaven of the
Thirty-Three' (tāvatimsa,
s. deva).
sakkāya
sakkāya-ditthi
salāyatana: the '6 bases' (of mental activity); s.
āyatana,
paticcasamuppāda.
samādhi
samādhi-parikkhāra: 'means, or requisites of concentration', are the 4
foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna).
See M.44.
samādhi-samāpatti-kusalatā, -thiti-kusalatā, -utthānakusalatā:
skilfulness in entering into concentration, in remaining in it, and in rising
from it. Cf. S.XXXIV.11ff.
samādhi-sambojjhanga: 'concentration as factor of enlightenment' (s.
bojjhanga).
samādhi-vipphārā iddhi: the 'power of penetrating concentration', is
one of the magical faculties (iddhi).
samanantara-paccaya: 'contiguity', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
sāmañña-phala
samāpatti
sama-sīsī
samatha
samatha-vipassanā
samatha-yānika: 'one who takes
tranquillity as his vehicle'. This is a name for a person who not only has
reached insight but also one or the other of the absorptions, to distinguish
him from one 'who practises only insight' (sukkha-vipassaka).
sambodhi = bodhi.
sambojjhanga = bojjhanga.
sammā-ditthi, -sankappa, -vaca, etc: see
magga.
sammā-magga: see micchā-magga.
sammā-ppadhāna: 'right exertion', is
identical with the 6th link of the 8-fold path (s.
magga, padhāna).
sammā-sambodhi
sammasana
sammatta: the 'state of rightness', are the 8 links of the 8-fold Path
(D. 33). Cf. micchātta.
sammuti-sacca: 'conventional truth', is identical with vohāra-sacca
(s. paramattha-sacca).
sampadā
sampajañña
sampaticchana-citta
sampayutta-paccaya: 'condition of association', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
samphassa = phassa.
samsāra
samseva
samuccheda-pahāna
samudaya-sacca: 'truth of the origin', i.e. the origin of suffering,
is the 2nd of the 4 Noble Truths (sacca).
samutthāna
samvara-padhāna: 'effort to avoid'; s.
padhāna.
samvara-sīla: 'indriya-s.'; s. sīla.
samvara-suddhi: 'purity of control', is another name for morality
consisting of restraint of the senses (indriya-samvara-sīla; s.
sīla).
samvatta-kappa: s. kappa.
samvega-vatthu
samvejanīya-tthāna
samyojana
sañcetanā = cetanā.
sangaha-vatthu: the 4 'ways of showing
favour' are liberality, kindly speech, beneficial actions, impartiality
(A.IV.32; A.VIII.24).
sangha
sankappa: 'thought', is a synonym of
vitakka. For sammā-s., or right thought, s.
magga (2).
sankhāra
sankhārupekkhā-ñāna
sankhata: the 'formed', i.e. anything
originated or conditioned, comprises all phenomena of existence. Cf.
sankhāra I, 4;
asankhata.
sankhitta citta: in the Satipatthāna Sutta, signifies the 'contracted'
or 'cramped' mind, not the concentrated (samāhita) mind, as often
translated by Western authors. Cf.
satipatthāna (3).
saññā
saññā-vedayita-nirodha =
nirodha-samāpatti.
saññā-vipallāsa: 'perversion of perception' (s.
vipallāsa).
saññojana = samyojana.
santāna
santīrana-citta: 'investigating
consciousness', is one of the stages in the cognitive series. For the 14
functions of consciousness. s.
viññānakicca.
santutthitā: 'contentedness'; s.
ariya-vamsa.
sapadānik'anga: s. dhutanga.
sappatigha-rūpa: 'corporeality reacting to sense stimuli', refers to
the 5 sense-organs (āyatana). - Cf. Vibh.
II (s. Guide II, Chap. II) and Vis.M. XIV; further s.
patigha 2.
sarana: s. ti-sarana.
sāsana
sasankhāra-parinibbāyī: 'one who reaches Nibbāna with exertion', is a
name of one of the 5 kinds of Non-returners (anāgāmī).
sasankhārika-citta
sassata-ditthi
(-vāda)
sati
satipatthāna
sati-sambojjhanga: 'mindfulness as factor of enlightenment' s.
bojjhanga.
sati-sampajañña: 'mindfulness and clarity of consciousness, s.
sampajañña.
satta
sattakkhattu-parama: 'one with only 7 further rebirths at the utmost',
is one of the 3 kinds of Stream-winners (sotāpanna).
sattāvāsa, nava
sa-upādisesa-nibbāna: s. nibbāna,
upādi.
sāvaka: 'hearer', i.e. 'disciple', refers, in a
restricted sense (then mostly ariya-sāvaka, 'noble disciple'), only to
the 8 kinds of noble disciples (ariya-puggala).
sāvaka-bodhi: 'enlightenment of the disciple', designates the holiness
of the disciple, as distinguished from the holiness of the
Pacceka-Buddha and the
Sammā-sambuddha.
sceptical doubt: vicikicchā.
Cf. kankhā.
scruples: kukkucca.
sekha
self: attā.
self-annihilation, craving for: vibhava-tanhā (s.
tanhā).
self-confidence: vesārajja.
self-mortification: atta-kilamatha.
senāsana
sense-organs and objects: s.
āyatana, dhātu.
sense-stimuli, corporeality responding to: s.
āyatana.
sensitive corporeality:
pasāda-rūpa.
sensuality (subj. & obj.): kāma.
sensuous clinging: kāmūpādāna; s.
upādāna.
sensuous craving: kāma-tanhā (-rāga), is one of the 10
fetters (samyojana), and one of the 3
kinds of craving (tanhā).
sensuous sphere (-world): s. avacara,
loka.
serenity: s. samatha.
seven rebirths at the utmost: s.
sotāpanna.
sex: s. bhāva.
sexual intercourse, unlawful: s.
kāmesu micchācāra.
shame: hiri.
shamelessness: ahirika.
signless (animitta): s.
ceto-vimutti, vimokkha,
vipassanā.
sikkhā
sikkhāpada
sīla
sīlabbata-parāmāsa and -upādāna
sīla-samādhi-paññā: s. sikkhā, magga.
silent buddha: pacceka-buddha.
sitting position, sleeping in: s.
dhutanga.
sīvathikā
skilful: kusala.
sloth: middha, s. nīvarana.
sobhana
somanassa
somanassūpavicāra: 'indulging in gladness'; s.
mano-pavicāra.
something: kiñcana.
sotāpanna
sotāpannassa angāni
sotāpatti: 'Stream-entry'; s.
sotāpanna; s. -magga, -phala, 'path and fruition of
Stream-entry'; s. ariyapuggala.
sotāpattiyanga
space: s. ākāsa.
spheres (of existence): avacara. -
The 4 immaterial spheres (āyatana): s.
jhāna (5-8).
spiritual faculties: s. indriya
(15-19), indriya-samatta,
bala.
spontaneously born beings: opapātika.
stains, the 3: mala.
standstill (of morality etc.): s.
hāna-bhāgiya-sīla. S.
of existence: vivatta.
stinginess: macchariya; cf.
Tab. II.
stored-up karma: katattā; s. karma.
stream-entry: s. sotāpanna,
ariya-puggala.
streams of merit: puññadhārā.
stream-winner: s. sotāpanna,
ariya-puggala.
stupid-natured: s. carita.
subconscious stream (of existence):
bhavanga-sota.
subha-kinha (or-kinna): s. deva
II.
subha-nimitta
subha-saññā, -citta, -ditthi: 'the perception (consciousness or view)
of beauty (or purity)' in what is actually devoid of it (asubhe
subha-saññā),
is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
sublime abodes (or States):
brahma-vihāra.
substrata of existence: upadhi.
sucarita
successive births, karma ripening in: s. karma.
suchness: tathatā.
sudassa, sudassī: s. foll.
suddhāvāsa
suddha-vipassanā-yānika =
sukkha-vipassaka.
suffering: For the 4 Truths of suffering, s.
sacca; further s.
ti-lakkhana.
sugati: 'happy course of existence'; s. gati.
sukha
sukha-saññā, -citta, -ditthi: 'the perception (consciousness or view)
of happiness' in what is actually suffering (dukkhe sukha-saññā), i.e.
any form of existence, it is one of the perversions (vipallāsa).
sukkha-vipassaka
suñña (adj.), suññatā (noun)
suññatānupassanā: 'contemplation of emptiness' (s. prec.), is one of
the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
Cf. Vis.M. XXI.
suññatā-vimokkha: 'emptiness-deliverance'; s.
vimokkha.
superiority-conceit: s. māna.
supermundane: lokuttara;
-faculties, s. indriya (20-22).
supernormal: mahaggata;
-knowledges,
s. abhiññā.
support, decisive support: (nissaya, upanissaya) are two
of the 24 conditions (s. paccaya).
supportive karma: upatthambhaka-kamma; s.
karma.
suppressive karma: upapīlaka-kamma; s.
karma.
surāmeraya-majja-ppamādatthānā veramanī
sikkhāpadam samādiyāmi: "I take upon myself the vow to abstain from taking
intoxicants and drugs such as wine, liquor, etc. since they lead to moral
carelessness." This is the wording of the last of the 5 moral rules (s.
sikkhāpada) binding on all Buddhists .
susānik'anga: s. dhutanga.
suta-mayā paññā: 'knowledge based on learning'; s.
paññā.
